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Nurse in the Civil war, created Red Cross

General Grant attacks In Mississippi, important because ½ of the anaconda plan was done, Union captured Mississippi river

When Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts denounced "the crime against Kansas" in a widely publicized speech, a member of Congress from South Carolina, Preston Brooks, attacked him on the Senate floor and beat him senseless with a cane.

a war between organized groups within the same nation state. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ("the Confederacy"); the other 25 states supported the federal government ("the Union"). After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was outlawed everywhere in the nation.

assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by giving clothing and food and also set up 40 hospitals, 4,000 schools, 61 industrial institutes, and 74 teacher training centers

5 Matching questions

Sherman's March to the Sea

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Preston Brooks

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

General Benjamin Butler

aGrant given command of all Union armies; 3 major offenses launched 1: General Sheridan to lay waste farm land in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley; 2: General Sherman to advance southeastward and seize Atlanta; 3: General Grant to pursue General Lee and capture Richmond; Sherman leaves Atlanta in flames and destroys railroad tracks, loots houses, burns factories, and then takes Savannah, Charleston and Columbia before heading for Virginia

bUnion general helped bring the slaves into the civil war to fight against the confederates

cDemocratic congressman from S. Carolina who beat Charles Sumner with a cane after his speech

d: book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe,published In 1852, portrayed slavery as a great moral evil

ewere all amendments to help African-Americans achieve full citizenship and rights

5 Multiple choice questions

Lincolns under 2 minute speech after the war in 1863 to dedicate a national cemetery at site of Battle of Gettysburg

Gettysburg Address

Jefferson Davis

Contraband

Fort Sumter

: first republican president Wanted to get rid of slavery in NEW TERRITORIES

Clara Barton

segregation

Andrew Johnson

Abraham Lincoln

a form of segregation that were discriminatory laws that severely restricted African-Americans' lives

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Poll taxes

Draft riots

Black Codes

Union general responsible for Western theatre and capturing Fort Donelson and Fort Henry also won at Shiloh to control the Mississippi river

General William T. Sherman

General Robert E. Lee

General Ulysses S. Grant

General George McClellan

Single Bloodiest day in the civil war, First time Lee lost, When the Emancipation Proclamation was written, made the war about slavery.

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Antietam

Border

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5 True/False questions

General Robert E. Lee → Union general helped bring the slaves into the civil war to fight against the confederates